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A Craig Family Case History EVIDENCE: An Exemplary Study A Craig Family Case History by MILTON RUBINCAM Special Publication No. 49 NATIONAL GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY 1921 Sunderland Place, NW Washington. DC 20036-1674 1981 SPECIAL PUBLICATION NO. 49 EVIDENCE: An Exemplary Study A Craig Family Case History Copyright 1981 by NATIONAL GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY Washington, DC 20036-1674 All rights reserved ISBN 0-915156-49-0 L/C Catalog Card No. 81-86218 Published in the United States of America 1981 TABLE OF CONTENTS Statement of the Study 1 Captain Samuel Craig 3 The Craig Family: General Considerations 4 The Craigs of Craig's Settlement 4 Pedigree I 5 Pedigree II 6 Pedigree III 8 Thomas Craig, Esq., of Allen Township 8 William Craig, Sheriff of Northampton County 12 General Thomas Craig 15 Hugh Craig 19 Captain Charles Craig 19 Captain William Craig 23 Daniel Craig, of Warrington Township, Bucks County, Pa 23 Colonel Thomas Craig 25 Captain John Craig 26 Lieutenant Robert Craig 28 Conclusion 29 Revised Pedigpt-ee IV 30 Bibliography 31 Index 39 EVIDENCE: An Exemplary Study A Craig Family Case History This study was initially made in an effort to discover the relationship, if any, between certain Revolutionary War officers named Craig who are listed in Heitman's Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army.^ One of these officers was Samuel Craig, an ancestor of the writer's client, Craig Colgate, Jr., of Washington, D.C., who made a grant to the National Genea logical Society for research on the problem and publication of the results. An intensive search has been made by Mr. Colgate, Joseph L. Graham of Phila delphia, a professional researcher, genealogist Charles R. Barker of Lans- downe. Pa., and the contributor. These researches were conducted in The National Archives in Washington, D.C., the manuscript and microfilm collec tions of the Genealogical and Historical Societies of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, the Northampton County Courthouse and the Northampton County Archives Building, Easton, Pa., the Division of Archives and Manuscripts, Bureau of Archives and History, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pa., and in numerous other places from Albany to Richmond. Attention was directed to Northampton County, Pennsylvania, since some of the officers entered military service there at the beginning of the Revolution. There was in that area a Scotch-Irish "Craig's Settlement." The numerous published accounts of the Craig family are confusing, contradictory, and with out documentation.^ The several Craig families in the county appear to have had a common origin for the most part, but so many members are named Tho mas, William and John that it is difficult to disentangle them. Milton Rubincam C.G., F.A.S.G., F.N.G.S., ' F.G.S.P., F.T.S.G.S., F.U.G.A. 1. CAPTAIN SAMUEL CRAIG^ All efforts to determine the parentage of Mr. Colgate's ancestor, Samuel Craig, have failed thus far. There is no proof that he belonged to the Craig's Settlement family. The only pieces of evidence that connect him with Northampton County are his entrance into a Northampton County mili tary unit and a Virginian's power of attorney authorizing him to sell lands in that county. The first documentary evidence for Samuel Craig's existence is dated 25 June 1775, when he was commissioned a Third Lieutenant in Colonel William Thompson's Battalion of Riflemen, which was raised in Northampton County, and convened on the village green at Easton, Pennsylvania. On the same day two other Craigs were appointed officers in the same battalion: Tho mas, as Second Lieutenant, and Charles, as First Lieutenant. The battal ion ultimately became the First Pennsylvania Regiment. Samuel's entire service during the Revolutionary War was with this unit. He was promoted to Second Lieutenant, 8 November 1775, First Lieutenant, 1 January 1776, and Captain, 1 October 1776. He fought in the battles of Long Island, Trenton, Brandywine (wounded), Paoli, and other actions, and he was at Valley Forge during the fateful winter of 1777-78. He retired from the Army, 17 January 1781, right after the mutiny of the Pennsylvania Line. After the Revolution Captain Craig removed to New York and entered the stagecoach business. Some time between July 1781 and May 1782 he married Rachel, daughter of Benjamin Davies, New York master mariner and shop keeper, by his wife Elizabeth Wessels. Their only child, Samuel Davies Craig, was born (probably in New York City), 3 January 1785. In the following years Craig was active in bujring and selling lands and acquiring free lands by virtue of his war service, including 600 acres of Donation Lands in what is now Mercer County, Pennsylvania, which he and his wife sold to John Nicholson of Philadelphia on 25 November 1794, for £281.5.0., "lawful money of Pennsylvania." Two years later the Craigs quarrelled and separated. Most of his activities were centered in New York, but on 25 April 1800 the Surveyor General of Pennsylvania appoint ed him Deputy Surveyor for Wayne County. He was attorney for several persons, holding powers of attorney from Frederick Molyneaux who owned lands in Kanawha County, (now West) Virginia, and John Gordon, of Alexandria, Virginia, who empowered him to sell his lands in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. In the fall of 1802 he apparently went to Philadel phia on some business and died there in the yellow fever epidemic, 22 September 1802. Captain Samuel Craig has been widely confused with another Samuel Craig, a native of York County, Pennsylvania, who served in the Fifth Pennsyl vania Regiment and afterwards in The Commander-in-chief's Life Guard, and deserted after Yorktown. Some time after the war this Samuel re moved to South Carolina, and thence, to Greene County, Tennessee, where he died in 1807. Years later his widow, Jane (Innis) Craig, claimed and obtained a pension based on her husband's service as Captain in the First Pennsylvania Regiment (!). Her file (W348) in The National Archives is a bulky one. Her pension was granted in 1844, but suspended in 1848 when a reexamination of documents revealed that Captain Samuel Craig's wife was Rachel and not Jane. The old lady was persistent, however, and in 1852 resumed the fight, still insisting her husband was a captain in the First Pennsylvania Regiment. Surprisingly, and in spite of con flicting testimony, she was restored to the pension rolls. To add to the confusion, descendants of Samuel and Jane (Innis) Craig have joined the D.A.R. on the basis of his alleged service as a captain, not as a member of Washington's Life Guard. 2. THE CRAIG FAMILY: GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS The difficulty of reconstructing the genealogy of the Craig family (or families) of Northampton, Bucks, and Montgomery Counties, Pennsylvania, lies in the absence of declarations of kinship in deeds between members of the family (or families) and in the sparsity of wills. The repetition of forenames adds to the problem; fortunately, in most cases occupations and status are given so that we can distinguish William Craig, Esquire, from William Craig, miller, and William Craig, yeoman, and Thomas Craig, Esquire, from Thomas Craig, yeoman, and so on. To further add to our problems we were unable to locate church records that might help. All of the Craigs apparently were Presbyterians. The Continental Army officers listed in Heitman's Historical Register for whom we attempted to find relationships, according to Mr. Colgate's directive, are: Captain Charles, 1st Continental Infantry, and 4th Con tinental Dragoons; Paymaster Hugh, 11th Pennsylvania Regiment; Captain John, 2nd Pennsylvania Battalion, 3rd and 4th Pennsylvania Dragoons; 1st Lieutenant Robert, 2nd Canadian (Hazen's) Regiment, who was described as of Pennsylvania; Captain Samuel, 1st Pennsylvania Regi ment, already discussed; Colonel Thomas, 3rd Pennsylvania Regiment (after the war a Major General of Militia); Regimental Quartermaster Thomas, 9th Pennsylvania; and Captain William, 3rd Pennsylvania Regiment. 3. THE CRAIGS OF CRAIG'S SETTLEMENT Nothing is known of the origin of the Craig family, where they came from in Ireland, or when they came to America. They appear about 1728 in that part of Bucks County which became Northampton County on 11 March 1752. The area in which they settled was erected into Allen's Township on 10 June 1748, and was called variously "Craig's Settlement," or the "Scotch- Irish" or "Irish Settlement." The township was named for William Allen, afterwards Chief Justice of Pennsylvania and a Revolutionary War Loyalist, who had many real estate dealings with the Craigs. He is also said to have had a Craig ancestry. ® The contradictory lineages of the Craigs is well exemplified by consulting three accounts, two in Roberts, et al., history of Lehigh County and the third in Clemens' The Craig Family of Pennsylvania. They are best ex plained in chart form: PEDIGREE I: ROBERTS, et al., 2:200 WILLIAM CRAIG, of Stirlingshire, Scotland, "who, to escape the persecution of the Presbyterians by James I/' settled at Dungannon, Ireland: four of his sons and three daughters emigrated to America. I I I ' l l I I Thomas; (d. 1779); Daniel; of Warring- James; settled William Sarah (d. 1784); Margaret Jane; founder of ton Twp., Bucks near Weavers- m. Richard (d. 1782) m. Thomas Craig's Settlement; Co. (d. 1776); m. ville; wife not Walker m. John Boyd m. Mary , Margaret named Gray who d. 1772 (8 children) William; 1st Sheriff Thomas (1739-1832); Thomas; Capt., WiUiam (d. 1810); Thomas Robert (d. of Northampton Colonel, 3rd Pa. Baxter's Flying of Northumber 1818); m. Co., 1752 Regt.; later Maj. Camp; later land Co., Pa.; Esther Brown Gen. of Militia; Comr. of Pur m. Elizabeth (6 sons) m.
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